Philip Lawrence at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On February 23rd, 2021. See this statement in context.

February 23rd, 2021 / 3:40 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

My questions will all be with respect to the CRA. I'm very much looking forward to Statistics Canada, too, but I'll just direct my questions to the CRA for my portion.

I want to start out with the rent subsidy. Initially, that was administered by CMHC, and according to nearly everyone's appraisal, it failed there. It was eventually transferred over to the CRA.

I'm wondering if you could comment as to why the CRA was not initially given that portfolio, as it seems as though they're doing a much better job than CMHC did.

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